STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3184

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2501

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Higher Education and Labor and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2501, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII REPORTING REQUIREMENTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the reporting requirement to identify the cost impacts to the State of providing workers' compensation coverage for University of Hawaii students.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaiʻi System.

Your Committees find that the University of Hawaii has a statutory mandate to report on workers' compensation claims made by student employees. However, the University of Hawaii has not had a workers' compensation claim to report since the 2014-2016 fiscal biennium, creating an administrative burden that is inefficient. Therefore, this measure promotes operational efficiency to streamline existing university resources and procedures.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Labor and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2501, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2501, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Labor and Technology,

________________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

________________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair